Dmitri Cherniak

Museum · 2021

CryptoArt

It’s Not About Money

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe–

Ringers.
Karlsruhe, Germany

Ringers #324 displayed on the outdoor LED screen of the ZKM Cube, with the museum’s glass facade and a sculpture in the foreground.View image
Ringers #324 on the ZKM Cube, 2021.© Dmitri Cherniak. Photograph © ZKM Karlsruhe, Elias Siebert. Screen image restored using Ringers #324.

The exhibition

Ringers on the ZKM Cube

CryptoArt: It’s Not About Money presented works from ZKM’s NFT collection and private lenders on the museum’s Cube screen. Curated by Daniel Heiss and Margit Rosen, the exhibition examined blockchain as a medium for digital art, including works whose generative code is stored on-chain.

Ringers #324 appeared on the building’s outdoor LED screen, taking the composition from the browser into public space.

A row of freestanding screens at ZKM showing Ringers with outlined strings and black, white, and yellow pegs.View image
Ringers on indoor screens at ZKM.
The same row of screens showing another selection of Ringers, with black silhouettes and red and yellow accents.View image
Another view of Ringers on indoor screens at ZKM.

Ringers · 2021

Works documented by ZKM

The museum’s exhibition page features these three works from Ringers.

Ringers #324, a generative composition of string wrapped around pegs.View image
Ringers #324, 2021.
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Ringers #415, a generative composition of string wrapped around pegs.View image
Ringers #415, 2021.
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Ringers #720, a generative composition of string wrapped around pegs.View image
Ringers #720, 2021.
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Museum collection

Ringers at ZKM

ZKM also holds Ringers #182 (2021) in its collection. Its collection record documents the work as a generative algorithm, an on-chain NFT on Ethereum, and a digital image.